Drugs violence in Mexico will focus US attention closer to home

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President Obama does not have to look as far as Afghanistan to find a drugs war, a failing state and violence that threatens the US’s stability. He can look south to Mexico, to a conflict that is bound to displace far-flung troublespots in US preoccupations.

The deliberate killing of three people with ties to the US consulate in Ciudad Ju?rez has raised the death rate along the border to a level impossible to ignore in Washington. Six consulates in northern Mexico have sent officials’ families back to the US.